LIFEBOAT MAGAZINE ARCHIVE

A matter of training How does the RNLI ensure that its lifeboat crews are ready to cope with any emergency that might come up? went to the inshore training centre at Cowes to find out.If you are ever unfortunate enough to run into trouble at...

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JANUARY 11TH. - DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN. At 7.10 in the morning, information was received from the coastguard that an R.A.F. aeroplane had crashed in Douglas Bay about two hundred yards off the Crescent Hotel. The weather was stormy, with a...

THE VALUE OF WIRELESS Selsey, Sussex.—At 8.8. in the even- ing of the 15th of April, 1947, the Selsey coastguard reported that on the previous evening a motor launch with a small boat in tow had anchored one and a half miles south of Shelley...

THE KNOLL ROUSE ' A CIVILISED AND RELAXING HOLIDAY FOR ALL AGES GOLF. TENNIS, OUTDOOR POOL, HEALTH SM WITH PLUNGE POOL SECLUDED GARDENS LEAD TO THREE MILES OF GOLDEN BEACH. GROUNDS OF 100 ACRES IN MAGNIFICENT COUNTRYSIDE CONNECTING ROOMS...

Swanage, Dorset.—• At 3.28 in the afternoon, on the 16th of April, 1950, the coastguard telephoned a message from the Portland radar station that an aeroplane had crashed into the sea.

The pilot had dropped by parachute...

JANUARY 26TH. - SWANAGE, DORSET.

At 2.5 in the morning, information was received from the Bournemouth police, through the coastguard, that an aeroplane had crashed three miles west of Hengistbury Head. A light north-west...

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Jan. 6, 1.50 a.m. Brig Prince Contort, of...